Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index.
Contents
The Necessities of Life -- Employment -- Housing -- Clothing -- Food -- The Nature of Society -- Marriage -- Unmarried Mothers -- Widows -- Religion -- Education -- Distress -- Distress and Famine -- Migration and Emigration -- Women and Crime.
Summary
"For most people in nineteenth-century Ireland, life was a struggle. This book focuses on Galway city and county, and on the way women coped with endemic poverty, unemployment, emigration and famine. It describes a society in transition, a people left largely to their own devices and under pressure from all sides. All the evidence points to a reduction in the status and a narrowing of opportunities for women in the period 1815 to 1900"--Jacket.